Sunset Limited, Paperback/Cormac McCarthy

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers, 'Black' and 'White', to a run-down tenement where they aim to discover the meaning of life. Deft, spare and full of artful tension, this is a dialectic redolent of Beckett. 'McCarthy has a true ear for the truncated rhythms of dialogue...intensely alive to the power of words' }Times{